Thankfulness is a lethal weapon of unimaginable power. And because it is, it allows us to rise far above all of the dark and maniacal forces that assail us. And in refusing to lower ourselves to the squalid terrain from which these forces have launched their sordid attacks they are doomed to surrender, not because we outwitted them in battle, but because we stole the battle.

With God, anything that stands against you will always be inferior to what resides within you.

Faith is the thing that asks us to set aside reason for the God who supersedes it.

Pausing and scanning the landscape for a moment, he turned back to little David and with a subdued voice said, “You just have to have hope in something bigger than people, that’s all. You have to have hope in something that’s so big that if everything you’ve got is taken from you, you’ll always have more than what was taken.

Faith steps beyond logic, thereby inviting logic to something higher than itself.

As a Christian, the litmus test of taking on a problem is being convinced that I can’t solve it, for that takes me out of the equation and makes God ‘the’ equation.

The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.